Terms

Lost Time Incidents = A person is injured at work and does not return to work either the next day or the next shift.
 
Incident = A person is injured at work but does not take any time off work.
 
Near Hits = An incident which could have resulted in injury or asset damage.
 
KPI = Key Performance Indicator
 
Stakeholder = a term to describe any organisation or individual that has a direct interest in actions or decisions. Their interest may be because they will have a role in implementing the decisions, or because they will be affected by the decision. E.g. Shareholders, Employees, Contractors, Hauliers.

Safety Performance (to the end of Dec 07)

Employee Lost Time Incidents for 2007 have been met with Zero recorded LTI (note the LTIs for 2007 involved 2 Contractors and a Haulier)

Combined Incident Rates (employee/contractors) have reduced on average by 70% since 2000. The last recorded Lost Time Incident to an Employee was March 2003--see graph 1

Graph 1 - Number of Lost Time Incidents (Employees and Contractors)

Similarly Non Lost Time Incidents have seen a 70% reduction from our 2000 base year with a drop from 44 to 10 recorded NLTI (year end 2007) - see graph 2.

Graph 2 - Number of Non-Lost Time Incidents (Employees and Contractors)

Several of our units have achieved over 2000 days (6 years) without a Lost Time Incident.

Safety Initiatives

  • We have instigated a 5 Year Plan to revitalise Safety at all levels – Top level down, shop floor up.
  • Safety Representatives will be retrained and empowered to tackle unsafe acts and behaviour.
  • Yearly Behavioural audits (Climate Surveys) will be carried out to maintain the effectiveness of our initiatives.
  • Active promotion of Zero Tolerance Target Zero - O.T.T.O.
  • We have set bottom up incident targets for each business unit.
  • We have an employee incentive scheme for eliminating lost time incidents.
  • MQP promotes a no blame culture that views all incidents as preventable.
  • Safety Committee members have attended the Epic training course for 'Increasing the Effectiveness of Safety Committees'.
  • Company car drivers have attended courses on defensive driving.
  • Pedestrian segregation has been put in place.
  • We have implemented additional hazard awareness training for all employees and contractors.
  • We have implemented a program of task auditing to root out unsafe acts and behaviour.
  • By the end of 2008 we will have all our Fixed and Mobile Plant team members with NVQ level 2.
  • All Franchise Hauliers will attend the EPIC Driver Skills card training.
  • By the end of 2008 we will have all Supervisors/Managers with SHE NVQ levels 3-5.

Safety Success

At the 2003 QPA safety awards the traffic and pedestrian management scheme was highly commended.

For the 5th year running MQP remain 'best in class' in the QPA members incident statistics, recording Zero Employee LTI for 2007 (see www.safequarry.com)

Safety Targets

For the year 2007:

  • We achieved zero Employee LTIs but failed to meet the combined (Employees, Contractors, Hauliers) target of zero, recording 3 LTIs for 2007.
  • We achieved our NLTI target of 10.
  • We achieved zero Prohibition/Improvement notices

2008 Targets

  • LTI target of zero.
  • NLTI target of 8.
  • Zero Prohibition/Improvement notices.
  • All sites audited to BSI 14001/18001
  • All Hauliers to achieve the EPIC Drivers Skills card.

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